VIEW price of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus and special offer!!!Product Description : 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Review1491 is not so much the story of a year, as of what that year stands for: the long-debated question of what human civilization in the Americas was like before the Europeans crashed the party. The history books most Americans were raised on describe the continents before Columbus as a vast, underused territory, sparsely populated by primitives whose cultures would inevitably bow before the advanced technologies of the Europeans. For decades, though, among the archaeologists, anthropologists, paleolinguists, and others whose discoveries Charles C. Mann brings together in 1491, different stories have been emerging. Among the revelations: the first Americans may not have come over the Bering land bridge around 12,000 B.C. but by boat a [Read More...] >> [Click to see price]